This project aims to bring the participants towards the appropriation of their immediate urban environment through the use of ethnographical fieldwork methods. Thus they also discover diverse ways to talk about the city and how they feel in this specific space. Learning the city is therefore also learning the language to be able to actively take part in the urban daily life.

Along the workshops, the participants use participative cartography, recordings, photography and texts, all materials that are finally gathered to form collective notebooks or creative maps.

From 2013 to 2015, six workshops have been organized (see the list below), allowing about a hundred participants but also socio-linguistic trainers to familiarize themselves with the ethnographic fieldwork methods and to engage differently with the city and the urbanscape. Among them the trainers have especially pointed out the benefit of this alternative approach to the learning of a foreign language for migrant people. They expressed in particular their wish to develop further those workshop experiences and to produce a pedagogical booklet that could be distributed more broadly to socio-linguistic trainers and language learners.

Through the method of participative cartography, the participants are led to materialize their daily journeys in their neighborhood as the workshor goes along. During the outings, they record each other in turns about their journeys, Along the survey, they take pictures and write short essays.

The method was developed in order to reply to the demand of a non-touristic civic education visit of Berlin focusing on social, political and historical aspects of the city in a playful way. It was inspired by the cultural event photomarathon Berlin (fotomarathon.de) and has been implemented since five years in seminars of civic education financed by the Bundeszentral für politische Bildung (national agency of the civic education). The method invites the learner to observe a neighborhood, to speak directly to the inhabitants and upon this basis to reflect on social, historical and political themes, for instance the immigration, the gentrification, the transformation after 1990 of Berlin. It is based on the observation and the documentation of these data with the use of interviews, the photography or other methods mostly stemming from the ethnographical research.

]]>https://ivpartnership.wordpress.com/2014/09/08/germany-local-project/feed/04-IMGP4400titakaisariWindow to Lithuania project: URBINGOhttps://ivpartnership.wordpress.com/2014/05/05/lithuania-urbingo/
https://ivpartnership.wordpress.com/2014/05/05/lithuania-urbingo/#respondMon, 05 May 2014 12:23:13 +0000http://ivpartnership.wordpress.com/?p=249URBINGO is an urban game and alternative guide to the changing neighbourhoods. It consists of: • illustrated map • visual cards with the neighbourhood’s elements • text cards with the historical facts and notes. This game was developed as a matrix for collecting and arranging neighbourhood stories and changing material culture, turning it into actively used archive. It is non-formal learning tool for activating the interest for the rapidly changing neighbourhoods and their stories, and encouraging citizen participation in gathering the valuable empirical data on the material culture of the changing neighbourhood. As many card games, Urbingo is an effective non-formal learning method. The 1st edition of Urbingo is dedicated to the wooden neighbourhood Šnipiškės (Vilnius), which faces a redevelopment pressure and lives through rapid changes. URBINGO game was created by: Laimikis.lt (urban anthropologist and curator Jekaterina Lavrinec + architect and copywriter Julius Narkūnas) in cooperation with the designer Tomas Umbrasas. More: laimikis.lt/urbingoExplore the city with the guide-game URBINGO. Even if you’re local, it is a good opportunity to test your knowledge or contribute by sharing the facts you know about the place. Give yourself to curiosity and step in to the haunting of new places and incredible facts.MAP covers the territory of the game. You can use it as a guide through districts streets and inner yards. It could also become a picture on your wall. The city’s changing rapidly and some of the objects in the map may not be found in reality. So be curious and observant city explorer – the truth will reveal as you walk. CARDS are of the two kinds: ones with images, others with texts. Pictures are like vitamins for your curiosity, they invite you to investigate unique and strange places of the district. Text cards may give you some new knowledge about this part of the city. We hope that after reading these stories you’ll notice unseen objects and get to know something new. Every image card has its number that is connected with the map. Text cards describe one or more image cards. That’s how numbers serve as links to image cards and points of the map. — URBINGO in LT media:• Lietuvos žinios: Šnipiškėms sukurtas žaidimas-gidas, 2o15 o6 28 • IVilnius: Šnipiškėms skirtas žaidimas-gidas „URBINGO“ kviečia tapti miesto atradėjais, 2o15 o6 29 • Šnipiškėms skirtas žaidimas-gidas „Urbingo“ kviečia tapti miesto atradėjais, 2o15 o6 29 • Pilotas.lt: Miesto istorijų medžioklė: pirstatytas Šnipiškių žaidimas-gidas Urbingo, 2o15 o6 29 • Antakalnio būstas Pristatytas pirmasis gyvenamajam rajonui skirtas žaidimas-gidas, 2o15 o6 29 • Žirmūnų būstas: Šnipiškėms skirtas žaidimas-gidas “Urbingo” kviečia tapti miesto atradėjais, 2o15 o6 29.

The Vade Mecum of collecting oral testimonies initiated by the European project ‘Inside Views “is a tool to
– Prepare an interview
– Conduct an interview
– Keep to broadcast the interview
based on ethnographic practices.

Any collector testimony created consciously or not content that can be shared.

This role of creator and distributor must be organized to be valued by many players.
The content must be accessible and easily distributable by anyone (scientific actors, social, educational, …)

Throughout this Vade Mecum, you will find fact sheets promoting learning of collecting oral heritage.

This work is the result of the work of HOmusée network (network of museums of ethnology members MSW) in collaboration with Mémoire Orale and PISTe (network of science museums, technical and industry members MSW).

Today, the network aims to disseminate good practice among leaders of associations and their members.

]]>https://ivpartnership.wordpress.com/2014/05/04/belgium-cases/feed/01-IV-montage-mouscron-micro-camera-modPedsakasWindow to Portugal project: Olhares Cruzadoshttps://ivpartnership.wordpress.com/2014/02/09/window-to-portugal-project/
https://ivpartnership.wordpress.com/2014/02/09/window-to-portugal-project/#respondSun, 09 Feb 2014 19:51:24 +0000http://ivpartnership.wordpress.com/?p=332Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Castelo de Vide formalized a partnership with the The Castelo de Vide Group of Schools in order to operate locally the European project: “Inside Views – Fieldwork methods of social anthropology to promote civic, cultural and intercultural education”, within the Grundtvig program, which locally adopted the name “Olhares Cruzados “.

They are in different contexts.

The starting problem reveals

Institutionalization of old people and children

Weak coordination between institutions and their teams

Few work habits among multidisciplinary teams and between partners

Devaluation of the elders’ knowledge and oral memory on the understanding local history

Improvement need of writing and reading processes with the elderly and children

The need to improve the educational success understood in an inclusive way, permanent and for all the community

In Castelo de Vide

This Project:

It deals with the educational dimension in community development

Establishing a partnership for the development of inter-generational approach and processes in which it operates memory, heritage and oral testimonies.

The intervention sites are located in day centers, schools and socio-cultural facilities.

In short:

This project aims to find clues to a work transfer of likely educational processes in a more formal way, institutional and with school logic, for a more communitarian sense that gives new meanings to the institutions involved and qualify their actors as players of the processes in which they participate.